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@ni-filth' tstrs @anni -ffirm c. F. MEGQ-UIER, oF E UREKA, ILLINOIS. l

` @empare-1%. 62,368, ma March 12, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN eULTIvAToIIs.

TO ALL'WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

v Be it known that I, C. F.MEGQUIER, of Eureka, Woodford county, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improved Cultivator-andl do hereby declare that thei'ollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others'skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part o' this specification, in whichfi n v Figure 1 is a side sectional lview of my invention, taken in the line :v z, 4fig. 2.

i Figure 2, a plan or top view ofthe saine. .f

Similar letters `of reference indicate like parts. y

o This invention relates to a new and improved arrangeur/ent of the ploughs or the mode of hanging and operating the same, whereby the Ydriver will have entire control overV the'implement, and, with the greatest facility, raise and Iowerall the ploughs whenever necessary, and move the innermostones/laterally towards fand frenav the plants.

part vof theframe Afand in such a manner as to be adjustable. FF represent tiro-plough standards, the upper ends -of'which-are secured by pivots in metal straps e, which encompass lboselyffaeshait, G, fitted tra. ns- 4versely in the frame lA. By this means the standards F are rendered capable of being mn'bd upand'down, and also in s lateral direction. Ploughs H are attached tothe lower ends of the standards F, and these plcughsJ as the machine is drawn along, work4 by the sides of-thegrowing plants. I I representplough standards, which are secured to .the/outer sides of theframe A, oneat each side, and a. little atthe reni` of' the standards F, ploughs J`being attached ,to the lower ends ofthe standards .I I. K K are levers, whiclihave their fulcra c in upright-s;

v L,on'e 'at each side'oi the frame'A.l The front endsot` these levers have cross-bars, d, attached, lvhieli'are connected b rods-e e to the'plough standards F I. Y' These levers may he operated by hand, 'ns theyfextend The plough standards F'F, pivoted at their upper ends inmetal straps '0, which encompass loosely the shaft G, in' thframe A, so that saidstandardsa nd they ploughs Hattached, may bemoved vertically and laterally, in combination with the plough-standards I I pivotd to the outensidesof the frame A,vthe levers K, to which;

Having th'us described my invention, I claimias new, and desire tosecure lay-LettersPatent`v the plough stan'daidsare connected, a'ndftherods battached to the plough standards, all being arranged to operate in the manner substantially as and for the purpose set-forth.

` c. MEGQUIER.

'AAWtn'essest R. B. Dzcsnssom, 521,1, RASsMvsssN. 

